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- EMIL' F. MEYER, or BROOKLYN,NEW YORK.

am. Patent No. 95,709, dated October 12,1869; antedatcd 00mm 5,1869.

MODE 0! PREPARING- ORNAMEN'IAL TRANSPARENT LETTERS I'OR SIGNS: ate.

The scheuule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same Be it known that I, EMIL F. MEYER, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a-new and useful mode and device for transparent letters'and ornamental paintings, and the makingand manufacturing thereof; andI do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The nature, of my invention is to paint letters and ornaments on tissue or other paper, properly prepared; then cover, and prepare it with my composition, as hereinafter set forth; out, form, or shape them at the edge thereof, and thereupon affix them, in proper order, on glass, or some other transparent body, thereby procuring a painting or figure, compact and transparent, visible alike distinctly by daylight and by night, as transparency.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, 1 will proceed to describe its construction, my mode of manufacture, and the ingredient of my composition, and how I employ the same in the execution of my art. a

I draw, lithograph, or paint the form or base-lines of my letters or figures on paper. I then lay a piece of varnished tissue-paper thereon, and shade it with scribed, using for the purpose oil-paint; then dry, cut, and form the shape of the letter. The letter is then varnished, and covered with a thin layer of pulverized American marble. This mineral covering is then varnished with Demar varnish, and dried, varnished again on the front or paperside, and again dried. Therenpon it is ready for use.

The letter, thus prepared, may be fastened on glass or any other transparent body, with varnish, and, if completely dried, will be more durable than any other letter or painting.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- The device and making of a transparent writing or painting, combining the beauty and usefulness of opaque and transparent painting, as heretofore detheaforesaid ingredients and mode of process, or any other, and other material, for the same, and which will produce the intended effect. 7

EMIL F. MEYER.

Witnesses:

E. W. FIOKERMANN,

R. T. RAVE. 

